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FOREST AND STREAM 
Fur, Fin and Feather 
Nubbins of News From “Forest and Stream’s” Duffle Bag for the Information and Pleasure of Readers 
SAYS FISHING WILL BE GOOD. 
Predictions that there would be good trout 
fishing in Pennsylvania this spring were made 
recently by N. R. Buller, State Commissioner 
of Fisheries. “Considering the condition of the 
streams and the severe winter through which 
we have passed the reports I have received about 
the trout are excellent, and I think that there 
will be good fishing,” said he. “This condition 
is general throughout the State. I have re¬ 
ceived dozens of reports, and as far as I can 
make out the fish have not been harmed.” 
The Commissioner said that since the trout 
season closed on July 31 over a million brook 
and brown trout have been “planted” in the 
trout streams of the State, the work having gone 
on as long as weather permitted, and having been 
resumed recently. These trout are all at least 
a year old, and are from four to seven inches 
long, and therefore able to take care of them¬ 
selves, says Mr. Buller. 
HACKETTSTOWN HATCHERY. 
Two million trout have been hatched since 
Jan. 1, at the State hatchery, near Hacketts- 
town, 1,500,000 of which are brook trout and 
500,000 rainbow trout. Shipments of 250,000 land 
locked salmon eggs from Maine, 100,000 rain¬ 
bow trout eggs, and another 100,000 of the same 
variety from Kalamazoo, Mich., were received 
recently. The blizzard greatly hampered the work 
at the hatchery, as the snow prevented the 
preparation of the ponds and for several days 
the food grinding plant was without electric 
power, and great quantities of the food had to 
be ground by hand. 
CLUB TO BUILD BASINS. 
The Sparta (Wis.) Rod and Gun Club plans 
to construct ponds in which it is proposed to 
confine trout and bass fry until such time as 
they shall have attained a size suitable for plant¬ 
ing. The cost, complete, will be in the neighbor¬ 
hood of $275, and to meet this outlay the club 
proposes to institute a campaign in the interests 
of a “bigger and better” membership. 
WARDENS CATCH VIOLATORS. 
Game Wardens Grey and Boomer, of Rice 
Lake, Wis., recently caused the arrest of four 
market shippers of birds and venison, each of 
whom was found guilty and fined $54.85. The 
game was being shipped to Chicago in large 
quantities. 
WARDENS MOVE WITH BIRDS. 
The biological survey at Washington has a 
force of 129 wardens in the field and eight dis¬ 
trict inspectors, also two special agents, and they 
are adding to their forces and getting their or¬ 
ganization in shape as fast as possible. These 
men will be all summer in the northern states, 
watching for violations of the law. 
GAME PROTECTORS SEIZE NETS. 
Game protectors in Niagara County, N. Y., 
visited the streams in the vicinity of North Tona- 
wanda recently, and seized a score of nets. No 
men were caught using nets and no arrests were 
made. Nine nets were seized in the town of 
Wheatfield, while a number of squat nets were 
taken in the Niagara river. Sawyer’s creek pass¬ 
es through private farms and the farmers whose 
nets were seized claimed that they had a right 
to maintain them in streams in their own lands, 
legal advice was sought. 
VALUE OF FISH AND GAME. 
The California fish and game commission has 
issued an annual report placing a value of $200,- 
000,000 upon the fish and game of the state. The 
commission estimates that the sportsmen there 
spend $20,000,000,000 yearly. 
WARDEN CAUSES CONVICTIONS. 
Deputy game and fish warden, John G. Leslie, 
of Warrensburg, Mo., who has been on the trial 
of violators of the “fur-bearing animal” law, 
obtained eight convictions recently. 
Three of these were of fox hunters who killed 
foxes out of season and sold the pelts. Five 
others who killed foxes, were convicted of hunt¬ 
ing without lincenses and fined $25 each. 
NEW GAME PRESERVE. 
With its center the high bluffs of Pilot Mound, 
highest point in Iowa, with the exception of 
Dickenson county, rising 1,300 feet above sea 
level and looking over a broad expense of virgin 
hills, valleys, thick brush, meadows and wood¬ 
lands, 6,000 acres in all, a new game preserve 
has been established at the corners of Winnebago, 
Hancock and Cerro Gordo counties. One hun¬ 
dred and fifty Hungarian pheasants will be 
stocked there at once. 
A game preserve nearer Mason City would 
have been established but for the fear of the 
ruthless destruction which would follow on the 
part of foreign laborers. 
AN OBNOXIOUS LAW. 
Fresh water fishermen throughout New Jersey 
are said to resent the fish game commission’s 
bill which Governor Fielder signed, providing 
for an annual license fee of $1.15 for residents 
and $2.15 for non-resident fresh water anglers 
in that state. 
“Every year a big batch of fish and game laws 
are enacted,” said the New Brunswick Times re¬ 
cently, “changing seasons, protecting this and 
that fish and bird. No man who does not give 
up considerable time to the subject can keep 
thoroughly posted on the laws. 
“A poor man was arrested for having a pike 
perch in his possession. He was kept in jail 
for six days until he could pay a fine of $20 
and costs. And yet we hear much of the fact 
that the state constitution forbids the imprison¬ 
ment of a man for debt. How many amateur 
fishermen would know that they were criminals 
if they simply had hooked an innocent looking 
pike perch and had slipped it into their fish 
basket ? 
“The court several months ago heard a case 
where a prominent lawyer had been arrested 
for violating the game and fish laws and had 
been carted off to the office of a justice of the 
peace as if he was a common criminal. He sought 
redress in a suit for damages and the action is 
still pending. 
“Now the barefooted boy with a bent pin for 
a hook who tries to get some vacation fun throw¬ 
ing his line into the Raritan will have to settle 
with the State for a license first. The measure 
is calculated to provide funds for the fish and 
game commission to conduct a hatchery at 
Hackettstown. 
“The Delaware river and Greenwood lake are 
virtually the only fresh water publicly owned 
in New Jersey, and the effect of the bill will be 
such that ponds and streams privately owned 
will be stocked with game fish at the expense 
of resident and non-resident fresh water fisher¬ 
men. 
“After this stocking, the supplied waters will 
be gobbled up by gunning and fishing clubs, so 
that the fishermen who rely on fishing for food 
will be required to pay a license fee and then 
be unable to use it except in water where game 
fish are not placed.” 
ILLEGAL SHOOTING NOT THE ONLY 
TROUBLE. 
Mt. Holly, N. J., March 23, 1914. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I enclose clipping showing condition game is 
in in this part of the country: 
“George V. Bozarth, of Chatsworth, freeholder 
from Woodland township, was in Mount Holly 
on Friday, and while here told of finding a 
young buck deer the day before, about a mile 
and a half from his place, in the last stages of 
starvation. He said that the deer was bleating 
like a young calf and he picked it up and carried 
it to his home and tried to feed it warm milk 
but the deer was too far gone to take nourish¬ 
ment and died about fifteen minutes after he 
got it to his home, Mr. Bazarth said that there 
is not any doubt but that much game had per¬ 
ished since the advent of the snow several weeks 
ago. Frequently, he remarked, you come across 
places where deer have pawed up the snow in 
vain search for food, and he further remarked 
that the other day in going along the road near 
his place he picked up eleven dead quail.” 
And I judge the same conditions prevail all 
through the game section of the state. And 
what has been done to prevent it? Our game 
wardens tramp the soles off their shoes trying 
to prevent the unlawful killing of game, but the 
chances are that more game has perished from 
hunger and cold in the past few weeks than was 
unlawfully killed in the last five years. And what 
have the game wardens done to prevent it? Who 
knows? JOS. VANDEGRIFT. 
